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Empirische Analysen zur betrieblichen Weiterbildung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Betriebsgröße

Stegmaier, Jens - 2011

Bildungspolitische Fragen haben in den letzten Jahren eine verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Auch der beruflichen und hier insbesondere der betrieblichen Weiterbildung wird vor dem Hintergrund des Paradigmas des „lebenslangen Lernens“ eine zunehmende Bedeutung eingeräumt. In der...

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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Essays on Banking for Micro and Small Enterprises

Schrader, Jan Peter - 2009

institution ProCredit Ecuador is merged with the monthly data of seismic activity and explosions of the volcano Tungurahua in … Ecuador from 2001 to 2006. Results indicate that new clients are less likely to receive a loan after the shock, but old … der kombinierten Auswertung von seismischen Daten des Vulkans Tungurahua in Ecuador und der Kundendatenbank einer …

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Entrepreneurship and the macroeconomy.

Kartashova, Katsiaryna L. - 2009

aggregate economic activity using data from Ecuador and Chile. …

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Fundacion Maquipucuna: an entrepreneurial Ecuadorian non-profit organisation

Ratten, Vanessa - 2011

Maquipucuna is a unique non-profit organisation in the Choco-Andes region of Ecuador. An ethnographic study and review of the …

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Are credit unions in Ecuador achieving economies of scale?

Marchio, Nick A - 2009

of diffuse ownership. Using data on 36 public credit unions in Ecuador, the empirical analysis finds evidence that credit … may stem from the level of formality in Ecuador’s financial system including its level of prudential regulation …

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Firm Size Expectations of Nascent Entrepreneurs

Delmar, Frederic; Davidsson, Per; Aronsson, Magnus - 1999

The purpose of this paper was to examine the factors affecting the future firm size expectations of nascent entrepreneurs. This was done by testing a decision model on a unique data set composed of a random sample of nascent entrepreneurs. The proposed model is based on four different components...

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Cost efficiency, profitability and firm size of Thai insurance companies

Karim, Mohd. Zaini Abdul; Jhantasana, Chanta - 2005

With an increasingly open economic condition in Thailand, insurance firms exposed to competition should improve efficiency to ensure their survival. This paper examines the cost efficiency and its relationship with profitability of life insurance firms: Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier...

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New evidence on the effect of CBOE options listing on the volatility of New York listed stocks

Mazouz, Khelifa - 2007

This paper re-examines the evidence on how the listing of options impacts on underlying stock’s volatility by taking into consideration the possible presence of a learning effect, along with the impact of the very endogenous nature of the options listing decision itself. Our analyses are...

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Unobserved Firm Heterogeneity and the Size - Exports Nexus: Evidence from German Panel Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that ceteris paribus...

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